I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.Collection: Wedding
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.Collection: Friendship
Equality implies individuality.Collection: Equality
The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.Collection: Cool
As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.Collection: Music
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!
When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.
Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.
I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We've always had a very tight knit community.
When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.Collection: Adventure
Creativity is the antidote to destruction.Collection: Creativity
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.Collection: Player
It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.Collection: Beautiful
What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.Collection: Squares
There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.Collection: Long
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.Collection: Running
Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'Collection: Spiritual
I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.Collection: Music
If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!Collection: Trying
I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.Collection: Waiting